onsdag 31. mai 2017

It's getting closer to summer, so today I am showing you a maritime summer pirate card-tag. I have used the Corsair stamp. The stamp has been coloured with distress ink. The motive has been cut out with a die from the Fancy Rectangles & Layers Die Set.

tirsdag 30. mai 2017

We have been showing chabby chic layouts with the Sage and Grace collection, in Kaisercraft's blog yesterday. I have created a layout featuring a photo taken at the Kaisercraft stand at CHA - winter 2016

The Blossoms paper has been teared down the middle, distressed and added to the top of the Grinite paper. Paper with golden foil from the Paper Pad, has been teared, and added under the photo.

mandag 29. mai 2017

It is the time for a new application for Kaisercraft's design team. I have been on the team for two years, and it has been two fantastic years working with fantastic quality papers and so many sweet collections.

Kaisercraft's design team application is in two rounds. Those who are chosen to go on to the second round, get a box from Kaisercraft with a collection to use for the second round. The task was to create something with a WOW factor, showing my style. So this is just what I did. I created a paper summer dress with lots of ruffles and flowers.

Why I created a paper dress

I do a lot of different paper crafts. I love doing cards, layouts, mixed media - but most of all, I enjoy creating advanced altered and 3D projects. I have created a few paper dresses before, and I have enjoyed that. I love to get the paper to fold into ruffles, just where I want them to.

Most of all, I get my inspiration to create from the collections I work with. I decided to wait to see what kind of paper collection I got to work with, before I decided what to create for the second round. The box arrived, and the paper collection was the Lilac Whisper with collectables, corrougated cardstock, coloured cardstock, flowers, Blossom stensil, and wooden Flourish Pack (Bouquet).

When I found out that the paper collection I had to work with for the final Kaisercraft round was the super sweet Lilac Whisper collection, I knew that I had to make a summer dress. The colours, flowers and patterns in the lilac papers inspired me. I also decided that I wanted to use the box itself. I used the box to create the circular base for the dress.

The process of creating the dress and the skirt and the ruffles:

The process of creating dresses like these are like you would create a usual dress with ruffles. It is part of the education in a side step of the tailor education, but I will go through the main process.

First I started with the doll. This is a Barbie doll, and I created the pattern for the skirt, using copy paper. At the end, the skirt was dismantled and created in papers from the Lilac Whisper collection.

The first part was to create the main underskirt. The ruffles need to be fixed to a crinoline or another underskirt. I often create a crinoline for this, but this time, I wanted a dress with a long skirt at the back, so I decided to create a cape / underskirt for this.

The underskirts were taped together , ready for the ruffles.

Ruffles for a dress like this need to be individually created, to make them come to a mountain fold and a valley fold, just where you want them to. This was done adding triangles to the ruffle, where I wanted a mountain fold and taking triangles out where I wanted a valley fold.

After creating the first set of ruffles with lots of tape and triangles added and taken out, it was traced onto copy¨paper. A new set of ruffle pattern was created, without all the tape. The ruffle was more curled at the back of the skirt. This is due to the shape of the dress at the back. This will increase the amount of ruffles at the back. The strip of paper creating the ruffle, is long and curly, and needed to be created in several steps and glued together.

The ruffles were added to the underskirt. As they were added, it started to curl as the paper is bending and glued onto the underskirt.

All the layers of ruffles, had to be individually made. This can be seen in the next layer, being a different shape.

The next layer of ruffles were added to the dress. As the next layer were added, it started to fold, trying to keep the mountain and valley folds over each other in most places.

All the layers added. The pattern of the skirt was finished.

The skirt was dismantled, layer by layer, and used as a pattern for the skirt in the Lilac Whisper paper collection. The underskirt was made from white cardstock. I only used the lilac papers for the dress itself. Starting with the darkest paper at the bottom of the dress, and ligher colours above.

The Lilac summer dress

The doll used for the dress, is a barbie doll.

The underskirt is made from white cardstock. To create some pattern on the base, I used the Blossom template and gesso.

At the bottom ruffle, I used the reverse side of the Echo paper. Then I used the papers in this order: Illusion, Opal, Illusion (reverse) and Well Wishes.

I have created flowers for this dress in several ways. One of the flowers is a large white flowers at the back of the dress. This has been created using the Layerd Flowers Decorative Die (DD707) and Pancy Flowers Decorative Die (DD373) and white cardstock. This is how I created the flower. I have used the Lilac Whisper collection against the white background.

søndag 28. mai 2017

So many Norwegians papercrafters love creating cards. In fact, I think cardmaking is the most favoured papercrafting in Norway. We often like colouring images and creating card with different card folds. Today, I am showing this card in the online magazine, The Papercrafting.

In this card, I have combined a diamond fold card and colouring with distress ink. The pper is from Kaisercraft's Sail Away collection. The dies are from Kaisercraft - Decorative Die sailing collage and LDRS - Fancy Rectangles & Layers Die Set. The stamp is from LDRS creative - Corsair - All Dressed Up Mounted Rubberstamps. I have also used cheese cloth in between the layers of patterned paper.